Their trajectory is pretty extreme. I don't its possible to prevent their ascension in most of our lives.

Putin is toast after this failed invasion. Oligarchs are turning on him.

Something will happen to Putin soon.

This half brained invasion is ruining Russia.

Citizens kind of deserve this for allowing their government to be authoritarian.

This post was edited by Skinned on Mar 5 2022 06:25am

I mean, what could they have done after the fall to prevent this?

Russian spring years ago. They've had one leader for how many years?

Won't this be their Russia spring 2.0 then? Now is their chance.
But you're assuming Putin actually runs everything.
Don't you think the oligarchs who are turning on him also have some sway in Russia's dealings?

One put a million dollar bounty on him.

Rasputitsa is a word btw.
And by this comment you're admitting putin doesn't run the whole of Russia on a whim.
If he did he'd have the one who put the bounty out executed.

I've heard of Rasputitsa and I've even visited Ukraine while deployed in Europe in the late 1990s but we didn't go very far. I was stationed in Europe in the last 1990s as an armor crewman in rapid deployment unit and spent three deployments in Eastern Europe and travelled extensively there during down time. We visited Ukraine while in Hungary. If you've ever been there and you're enlisted then you've heard of Captain Jacks (lol).

Of course the man doesn't run the whole of the country but he is calling the shots. I thought General Valery Gerasimov and Def minister Sergey Shoygu had some power but they looked like they were about to shit themselves when Putin told them to ready nuclear armament, so it shows that Putin is going far beyond what they thought is possible. Putin is becoming more unhinged, threatening nuclear war on Europe if they respond to his attack on Europe etc. He plans for the new borders to be Ukraine, half of Poland along with Lithuania, latvia, and estonia as the north west border. His plans leaked. He wants to become some sort of Russian caeser and bring back an empire that doesn't belong in the modern world with its states.

No he doesn't run the whole of Russia on a whim, but he was able to trick a bunch of unemployed teenagers to drive to Ukraine to take it over with one tank of gas and there magazines, and they thought they were going to denazify a country with a jewish president by bombing a holocaust memorial and killing its workers. Putin is unhinged.

We should loan Ukraine just 2 A-10s so they can annihilate that 40 mile long armor column over the course of one day. It is crazy they are lined up like that for them, like they are recreating the Highway of Death in Iraq.

What is amazing to me is that the party of Ronald Reagan is so mum on this and the Democrats are the ones being tough on America's enemies. I think the GOP thinks the Trump - Putin alliance is just whites helping whites. But Russian television has Trump and Tucker Carlson all over TV praising Putin and his invasion.

I'm sure he would have him executed if he knew where he was. A lot of them are in places with no extradition treaty with Russia docked up in their yachts. They don't want to go back for the next peasant revolution because they're on the menu bruh lol. Putin and the kleoptocrats are the reason Russia has never become anything more than a global gas station.

Dude, their military sucks so bad because all that funding they get just gets spent on mansions and cars for generals. You seeing the rations from the 1980s they are eating? lol. Conscripts with no gas eating moldy food. They aren't gonna win this.

This post was edited by Skinned on Mar 5 2022 07:17am